Word: successful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most famous tale of club lore: the Porcellian presents all members who have not yet achieved economic success by age 30 with an expensive birthday gift--$1 million...
Beyond the anecdotal evidence of success stories, is there any evidence that the private groups would do better on the scale at which government agencies operate? Some volunteer organizations can thrive on a shoestring budget, but others are plagued with at least as much administrative overhead as the Department of Health and Human Services. Furthermore, government agencies, despite all their inefficiencies, have built-in oversight procedures and are always directly accountable to a higher authority, as well as, indirectly, the voting public. Would a private group be under--or be willing to submit to--such oversight...
...Harvard Coop Cafe is currently the exclusive carrier of Frugi. It's already a success with customers there, according to Duarte Vieira, systems manager for the Harvard Coop...
...their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements of the Indonesian military, continued Wednesday with a campaign of terror against a civilian population that also now faces mass starvation. The mission's success will depend in large part on the fate of the Indonesian military units in East Timor - there is no provision for withdrawing those units in the current agreement, and they're unlikely to roll out the welcome mat for the peacekeepers...
SAMPLE ACADEMIC FARE: Problem Solving for Pet Sitters ("How to handle break-ins, workmen, house keys and weather disasters"); Profiles in Pet-Sitting Success; Dental Care for Dogs and Cats; Pet-i-Zens, a seminar on caring for elderly pets from Thom Somes, "the Pet Safety...